Extenuation
[ɪk,stenjʊ'eɪʃən] or [ɪk'stɛnjʊ'eʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious.
(noun.) a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances.
黛拉校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment.
休伯特校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Diminution, abatement, mitigation.[2]. Palliation, excuse, apology.
校對:索尼亚
例句/造句/用法:
- I hope this history of my conduct towards her will be admitted by you and my father as great extenuation of what you saw amiss. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Only she wept from fathomless depths of hopeless, hopeless grief, the terrible grief of a child, that knows no extenuation. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- For sins of omission a lack of space affords a reasonable excuse, and for those of commission the great scope of the work is pleaded in extenuation. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Circumstances over which had no control,' was the miserable creature's plea in extenuation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Neither Mrs. Maylie, nor Harry, nor Rose (who all came in together), could offer a word in extenuation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Tossed about all her life from one foreign school to another, she may justly proffer the plea of ignorance in extenuation of most of her faults. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It may bring many extenuations. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
阿纳托尔校對